From time to time we feel the need to go back to the science for a reminder of the urgency of the cliamte change. Here is a summary of three recent important scientific reports.

In this blog we pick out three decarbonisation trends, one good, one bad, one interesting, from researcher Nat Bullard’s annual presentation.

“The climate emergency is here for the Earth’s tallest mountain, 70 years on from its first ascent, with two thirds of the Hindu-Kush Himalaya glaciers projected to vanish by the end of the century.”

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ‘IPCC’ released its Sixth Assessment Summary Report on 20 March 2023. This is a key scientific baseline, consensus and internationally respected building block which needs to form the basis for all climate actions that governments take towards mitigation and adaptation on climate change.

In Part 2 of a three-part series, we look at the initial response to the recent IEA & IPCC reports from governments, and some of the wider implications for financial institutions.

In this first of a three-part series, we look at the way in which the publication in the summer of 2021 of two reports, from the IAE and the IPCC, has fundamentally changed the ground rules for fossil fuel investment.

In this blog, we define terms like scientific consensus and scientific theory, and examine the level of consensus regarding man-made climate change among climate scientists.

How do we predict our climate’s future and what do those predictions say?

How has the climate of our planet changed over the last 4.5 billion years and what does that tell us about the changes we see today?

Part 3 of our Climate Science Series looks at how the climate regulates itself through feedback loops, and how it could spiral out of control by passing tipping points